Eating garlic and healthy fats such as olive oil have a similar result. This helps to explain why the Mediterranean diet is so healthy.

Proof is in the PET Scans Used to Diagnose, Not Treat Cancer

Machines using “positron emission tomography” (PET) are one of the best traditional ways to diagnose cancer because of how cancer cells gobble up so much glucose.

PET scans are used in every cancer center around the world. Oncologists use them to detect and diagnose cancer. Oncologists use cancer’s metabolism to diagnose it. Unfortunately, they do not use it to treat cancer.

CT scans can find cancer spots, but they can’t tell whether the cancer is dead or alive.

PET scans work because of cancer’s huge appetite for sugar.

After a cancer patient fasts for 6 hours, they’re injected with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). That’s a substance that’s a lot like glucose, but a radioactive isotope of fluorine replaces an oxygen atom. However, it’s close enough to glucose for cancer to try to gobble it up.

The patient will lie still for an hour. During that time, the FDG spreads through the body. Because it’s like glucose, any active tumors greedily scarf up the FDG.

During the actual scan, the fluorine interacts with the emission of positrons. When the FDG is concentrated in one place, that makes a clear, bright picture.